BOYERTOWN — A few days of practice, a shuffling of the lineup, and extra enthusiasm on the bench seem to have pumped new life into the Boyertown offense during the first two days of the Pennsylvania Region Two Tournament.

After falling flat on the scoreboard during their two losses in the Berks Legion League playoffs, the Bears have posted double-digit run totals each of the last two days, including an 11-2 win over Nazareth on Sunday night at Bear Stadium.

That sends Boyertown (29-9-2) into the winners’ bracket final on Monday night at approximately 7:30 p.m. against Berks champion Twin Valley, a 10-0 winner over Oley/Topton. Nazareth (18-9-2) will take on North Parkland at 4 p.m. after a 12:30 p.m. contest between Pottstown and Oley/Topton.

“We switched up the lineup a little bit and it’s working,” said Bear outfielder and Berks batting co-champion Tyler Comport, who smacked a triple, single, and double as part of his team’s 14-hit attack. “We’ve been excited in the dugout and everybody’s been up. We’ve been getting our pitches and not chasing.”

“We had a good week of practice this week,” added Bears starting pitcher Mitch Renninger, who earned the win with seven innings of five-hit pitching while allowing single runs in the second and fourth. “The intensity of our bench has gone up. Everybody’s making noise.”

The Bears also started to make some noise with their bats right from the start when Zach Moser opened the game with a walk and scored on a double by Ronnie Mauger, who then stole third and scored on a grounder to short by Luke Stong.

Boyertown led all the way after that and broke it open with three consecutive three-run innings in the fourth, fifth and sixth.

“That was a little different than last week,” Bear manager Rick Moatz said with a smile. “It (the new lineup) is putting some people in a little bit different situations. We moved Cory (Fox) down a little bit. He’s been executing. We’re stressing quality at bats … even if you’re not hitting well, trying to help your team, and that’s what we’ve been doing.”

Comport was right in the middle of the three big innings as he tripled home a run in the fourth, singled in one in the fifth, and drove a double to right-center for another RBI in the sixth.

“We knew that he (Nazareth starter Brett Kline) was right around the plate,” said Comport. “There was a big right-center gap and we were trying to hit it there.

“We’ve been really excited in the dugout. We’ve been looking to hit the ball hard on the ground, hit hard line drives.”

That resulted in everybody in the Bear starting lineup picking up at least one hit, including two each by Mauger, Stong, and Brett Moyer. And that, along with an offensive outburst by the Bears in an opening round 11-1 win over Pottstown, helped the confidence of Renninger, who said he was not nervous in his first regional contest.

“No, not really,” said the right-hander, who upped his record to 7-2 on the year. “Just got to go out there and throw strikes. It certainly was a confidence builder the way our team played (Saturday) night.”

NOTES“Because we lost in the (Berks) playoffs, we had no target on our back,” added Comport. “We were just ready to play.” … Tyler Bauman and Chase Endy each threw a scoreless inning to finish up the combined five-hitter. … The Bears and Nazareth last met in the regional winners’ bracket final in 2011, with Boyertown winning by an 8-3 score on the way to the championship.